Patents by Inventor Hideki Sato

Hideki 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).

  • OPTICAL SENSOR AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE
    Publication number: 20190129015
    Abstract: An optical sensor of the present invention changes a light-emitting period of a light-emitting element and a period of a reference clock that is used by a time difference extracting circuit, depending on whether or not a digital value that is output from a first digital calculating portion exceeds a reference value in a determination period. With this, there is achieved an optical sensor capable of maintaining both of measurement accuracy at short distance and measurement accuracy at long distance when a housing panel is present between the optical sensor and a detection target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: YOSHIKI IKUTA, HIDEKI SATO, TAKUMA HIRAMATSU, TAKAYUKI SHIMIZU
  • Storage facility for object of paying of respects
    Patent number: 10271700
    Abstract: A storage facility for objects of paying of respects includes a cleaning device which utilizes a dust removing member to remove dust from an outer surface of an object of paying of respects. The dust removing member is provided at a position that allows the dust removing member to act on an outer surface of an object of paying of respects that is being moved in a transport direction through transport operation by the transport system such that the dust removing member is in relative motion, in a direction opposite to the transport direction, with respect to the object of paying of respects as the object of paying of respects is moved in the transport direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Daifuku Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hidenobu Shinnaka, Haruhito Furuya, Wataru Kiyokawa, Hideki Sato, Yukinori Kameda, Kazuya Arima
  • Remote control system, remote control commander, and remote control server
    Patent number: 10257560
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus and server apparatus are disclosed. In one example, the information processing apparatus is configured to display content on a first display and transmit an instruction to display the content, which is being displayed on the first display, on a second display of a first external device. This instruction causes a displaying of the content at a specified playback start point on the second display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Sato, Junichi Nakamura, Naoki Yuasa, Shuichi Otsu, Hiroki Hashi, Mie Namai
  • Fixing device and image forming apparatus
    Patent number: 10175621
    Abstract: A fixing device includes a roller member that rotates and a belt member including an endless belt that moves circularly while being in contact with the roller member, a pressing member that is disposed in a space enclosed by the endless belt and that presses the endless belt against the roller member on both a downstream side and an upstream side relative to a direction of rotation of the roller member, and a rotation hindering member that is disposed in the space enclosed by the endless belt and that hinders the pressing member from rotating as a result of receiving a reaction force. The roller member and the endless belt nip a sheet that has been transported while holding a toner image on the sheet and cause the sheet to pass between the roller member and the endless belt, so that the toner image is fixed onto the sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiro Konishi, Jun Sawamura, Hideki Sato, Takayuki Ukawa, Yasuhiro Kato, Masahiro Akatsuka, Yusuke Sakurai
  • Fixing device and image forming apparatus
    Patent number: 10175618
    Abstract: A fixing device includes a first fixing member, a second fixing member that fixes a toner image transferred to a recording medium onto the recording medium by transporting the recording medium while holding the recording medium between the first fixing member and the second fixing member, a first support member that supports the first fixing member, a forcing member that supports the second fixing member and presses the second fixing member against the first fixing member, and a restricting member disposed on the first support member to fix a position of the first support member at an attachable member to which the first support member is attached, and to restrict a position of the forcing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Sato, Jun Sawamura, Yoshiro Konishi, Yasuhiro Kato, Takayuki Ukawa, Masahiro Akatsuka, Yusuke Sakurai
  • Remote control system, remote control commander, remote control server
    Patent number: 10165320
    Abstract: A communication medium with fewer limitations on the directivity or available communication range, such as an IP network, is used to perform a remote control operation. Since two-way communication can be carried out between a remote controller and a device to be operated, it is possible to provide more reliable communication by means of a delivery confirmation, to handle a GUI-based complex command scheme, and to provide large-volume data transmission, such as moving-image streaming, using relatively broad bands. A television receiver to be operated by the remote controller distributes moving-image data, such as a child view, to an IP remote controller through an IP network so that the data can be viewed on the IP remote controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Sato, Junichi Nakamura, Naoki Yuasa, Shuichi Otsu, Hiroki Hashi, Mie Namai
  • Fastener element, fastener stringer and slide fastener
    Patent number: 10136707
    Abstract: A fastener element has a central land portion and first and second bulging portions bulging from the central land portion toward the tape front surface side and the tape rear surface side in the element thickness direction. The first and second bulging portions respectively have a bulging end surface facing to the element thickness direction. The bulging end surface has a quadrilateral base end surface which is long in the element length direction and a tapered protrusion end surface protruding from the base end surface in the element width direction. Thus, it is possible to make the fastener element look like a single-sided metal element and to make a slide fastener which is formed by using the fastener elements lighter than a conventional slide fastener having single-sided metal elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: YKK Corporation
    Inventors: Masayoshi Kojima, Hideki Sato, Kinue Yoshimoto
  • INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20180332264
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including an account registration unit that registers account information of a user and account information of a group that includes a plurality of users, a metadata retaining unit that retains information of a terminal that the user or the group uses and reproduction stop position information of content in association with the account information of the user or the group, and a metadata providing unit that provides the terminal that the user or the group uses with the reproduction stop position information associated with the account information of the user or the group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Applicant: SATURN LICENSING LLC
    Inventors: Junichi NAKAMURA, Hideki SATO
  • ROTATING MEMBER, SHEET TRANSPORT DEVICE, FIXING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20180305150
    Abstract: A rotating member includes a rotating-member body, identification information, and a holding member. The rotating-member body having a cylindrical or columnar shape has one end portion and an outer circumferential surface and is to be rotated. The identification information is provided at the one end portion on the outer circumferential surface of the rotating-member body. The holding member is provided at the one end portion of the rotating-member body, holds the rotating-member body, and has an inner circumferential surface in part of which a space not to be in contact with the outer circumferential surface of the rotating-member body is provided. The identification information is disposed in the space of the holding member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki SATO, Jun SAWAMURA, Yoshiro KONISHI, Yasuhiro KATO, Takayuki UKAWA, Masahiro AKATSUKA, Yusuke SAKURAI
  • Storage Facility for Object of Paying of Respects
    Publication number: 20180271342
    Abstract: A storage facility for objects of paying of respects includes a cleaning device which utilizes a dust removing member to remove dust from an outer surface of an object of paying of respects. The dust removing member is provided at a position that allows the dust removing member to act on an outer surface of an object of paying of respects that is being moved in a transport direction through transport operation by the transport system such that the dust removing member is in relative motion, in a direction opposite to the transport direction, with respect to the object of paying of respects as the object of paying of respects is moved in the transport direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Hidenobu Shinnaka, Haruhito Furuya, Wataru Kiyokawa, Hideki Sato, Yukinori Kameda, Kazuya Arima
  • Storage Facility for Object of Paying of Respects
    Publication number: 20180273293
    Abstract: A support portion on which an object of paying of respects transported by the transport device is placed is provided at the support position. The support portion includes one or more restriction members configured to restrict movement of an object of paying of respects toward the first side by contacting the object of paying of respects from the first side, and one or more guide portions configured to move an object of paying of respects toward the first side to a contact position at which the object of paying of respects contacts the one or more restriction members or to a position located more toward the second side relative to the contact position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Hidenobu Shinnaka, Haruhito Furuya, Wataru Kiyokawa, Hideki Sato, Yukinori Kameda, Kazuya Arima
  • Storage Facility for Object of Paying of Respects
    Publication number: 20180274259
    Abstract: An opening for allowing an object of paying of respects to be moved therethrough is formed in a wall. An inside support position for an object of paying of respects to be supported at is set at a position that is in the internal area and across from the opening and in a range over which the transport device is capable of moving an object of paying of respects. A support portion configured to support an object of paying of respects is also configured to be moved, through the opening, between the inside support position and an outside support position for an object of paying of respects to be supported at such that at least a portion of the object of paying of respects is located outside the internal area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Hidenobu Shinnaka, Haruhito Furuya, Wataru Kiyokawa, Hideki Sato, Yukinori Kameda, Kazuya Arima
  • Storage Facility for Object of Paying of Respects
    Publication number: 20180274260
    Abstract: A plurality of storage sections include one or more reference storage sections each of which is defined to be a storage section that has an occupiable area at least a portion of which extends over a same positional range along the first direction as a portion of an occupiable area in the support position. A transport device includes a projecting and retracting mechanism configured to project and retract along the first direction a holding member configured to hold an object of paying of respects, and is configured to move the holding member toward a partition wall side along the first direction when moving an object of paying of respects to a reference storage section or to the support position by means of the projecting and retracting mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Hidenobu Shinnaka, Haruhito Furuya, Wataru Kiyokawa, Hideki Sato, Yukinori Kameda, Kazuya Arima
  • Storage Facility for Object of Paying of Respects
    Publication number: 20180274286
    Abstract: A storage facility for objects of paying of respects includes a partition wall located to partition off the support position from a respects-paying position for a person visiting to pay respects, a window member including a variable-light-transmittance member whose light transmittance is adjustable, an illuminating device for which an amount of light emitted thereby is adjustable, and a controller. A window for allowing the person visiting to pay respects to view an object of paying of respects is formed in an area, of the partition wall, toward which the object of paying of respects faces when supported in the support position. The window is provided with a window member. And the illuminating device is so positioned that light therefrom reaches the object of paying of respects supported in the support position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Hidenobu Shinnaka, Haruhito Furuya, Wataru Kiyokawa, Hideki Sato, Yukinori Kameda, Kazuya Arima
  • Polyamide resin composition for slide fasteners, slide fastener component, and slide fastener provided with same
    Patent number: 10064454
    Abstract: Provided is a polyamide resin composition that is suitable as a material for slide fastener parts having good strength after being dyed. A polyamide resin composition for a slide fastener, comprising a polyamide resin and reinforcing fibers, wherein a total mass of the polyamide resin and the reinforcing fibers is 90% by mass or more of the composition; wherein a proportion of an aromatic polyamide having a melting point of from 200 to 250° C. in the polyamide resin is more than 70% by mass; and wherein a content of the reinforcing fibers in the total mass of the polyamide resin and the reinforcing fibers is from 45 to 70% by mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: YKK Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuya Mizumoto, Masayoshi Kojima, Takanori Ozawa, Masahiro Hanyu, Hideki Sato
  • HELICAL BROACH AND INTERNAL GEAR MACHINING METHOD USING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20180243847
    Abstract: A helical broach which eliminates the need for a fixing means for fixing a workpiece during gear machining is provided. The helical broach includes: a plurality of cutting edges; a spiral flute formed between adjacent cutting edges to extend in a spiral manner with a predetermined helix angle with respect to an axial direction of the helical broach; and a gullet formed between adjacent cutting edges to extend with a predetermined helix angle with respect to a circumferential direction of the helical broach. In the helical broach, the expression: 0.5?tan ?/tan(?+?)?0.7 is satisfied, wherein ? is the helix angle of the spiral flute, and (90°??) is the helix angle of the gullet with reference to a central axis of the helical broach. An internal gear machining method using the helical broach is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2018
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Hideki SATO, Shota MIURA, Kazuyuki NAKAMURA, Masayuki TSUNO
  • Remote control system, remote control commander, remote control server
    Patent number: 10051308
    Abstract: A communication medium with fewer limitations on the directivity or available communication range, such as an IP network, is used to perform a remote control operation. Since two-way communication can be carried out between a remote controller and a device to be operated, it is possible to provide more reliable communication by means of a delivery confirmation, to handle a GUI-based complex command scheme, and to provide large-volume data transmission, such as moving-image streaming, using relatively broad bands. A television receiver to be operated by the remote controller distributes moving-image data, such as a child view, to an IP remote controller through an IP network so that the data can be viewed on the IP remote controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hideki Sato, Junichi Nakamura, Naoki Yuasa, Shuichi Otsu, Hiroki Hashi, Mie Namai
  • Contact terminal and IC socket including the same
    Patent number: 10044124
    Abstract: In a contact terminal, a first touch portion and a second touch portion of a movable piece and a first touch portion and a second touch portion of a movable piece bite into and thus pinch a spherical surface of a bump of a semiconductor device. In this state, when an electrode surface of the semiconductor device is warped upward during a test and the bump is about to be moved up, an inclined surface of a fixing portion of the movable piece and an inclined surface of a fixing portion of the movable piece fix the spherical surface of the bump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: YAMAICHI ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Sagano, Hideki Sato
  • FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20180203385
    Abstract: A fixing device includes a roller member that rotates and a belt member including an endless belt that moves circularly while being in contact with the roller member, a pressing member that is disposed in a space enclosed by the endless belt and that presses the endless belt against the roller member on both a downstream side and an upstream side relative to a direction of rotation of the roller member, and a rotation hindering member that is disposed in the space enclosed by the endless belt and that hinders the pressing member from rotating as a result of receiving a reaction force. The roller member and the endless belt nip a sheet that has been transported while holding a toner image on the sheet and cause the sheet to pass between the roller member and the endless belt, so that the toner image is fixed onto the sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiro KONISHI, Jun SAWAMURA, Hideki SATO, Takayuki UKAWA, Yasuhiro KATO, Masahiro AKATSUKA, Yusuke SAKURAI
  • FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20180196379
    Abstract: A fixing device includes a first fixing member, a second fixing member that fixes a toner image transferred to a recording medium onto the recording medium by transporting the recording medium while holding the recording medium between the first fixing member and the second fixing member, a first support member that supports the first fixing member, a forcing member that supports the second fixing member and presses the second fixing member against the first fixing member, and a restricting member disposed on the first support member to fix a position of the first support member at an attachable member to which the first support member is attached, and to restrict a position of the forcing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki SATO, Jun SAWAMURA, Yoshiro KONISHI, Yasuhiro KATO, Takayuki UKAWA, Masahiro AKATSUKA, Yusuke SAKURAI