Patents by Inventor Hiroki Kato

Hiroki 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: 20250113739
    Abstract: A piezoelectric thin film having better FoM and piezoelectric strain constant, a manufacturing apparatus and manufacturing method, and a fatigue estimation system using the film; wherein, the piezoelectric thin film is made of (MgHf)xAl1-xN in which Mg and Hf are co-doped into the Al site of AlN, where x is 0.3 or more and 0.49 or less, and has a figure of merit (FoM) of 45 GPa or more and a piezoelectric strain constant (d33) of 18 pm/V or more. Multiple first pieces made of Mg and multiple second pieces made of Hf are on the surface of a target made of AlN wherein an average surface area of each first piece is 0.9 to 1.1 times an average surface area of each second piece with respect to a surface area of the target, and a piezoelectric thin film is grown on a substrate by magnetron sputtering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: TOHOKU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hiroki KUWANO, Tadashi KATO, Van Minh LE, Hoang Hung NGUYEN, Riyo KONNO, Yosuke TAKAMAYA
  • 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: 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: 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: 12261424
    Abstract: A fixing structure of a wiring member includes: an electrical wire bundle; an exterior member externally mounted to the electrical wire bundle; and an adherend having a main surface as a flat surface, wherein the exterior member has an outer surface as a flat surface, and the outer surface and the main surface have surface contact with and are bonded to each other while the electrical wire bundle is disposed on the main surface of the adherend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotaka Kato, Hiroki Hirai, Makoto Higashikozono, Kosuke Sone, Hirokazu Komori
  • Publication number: 20250094748
    Abstract: A reading apparatus includes an antenna element, a substrate including a ground plane and a communication circuit, and a housing. The housing has a plate-like shape having a length in a first direction that is shorter than a length in a second direction and a length in a third direction. The reading apparatus includes a parasitic element that is disposed apart from the substrate in the first direction and is disposed so as to overlap both of the antenna element and the ground plane when viewed in the first direction, the parasitic element resonating when the antenna element is excited. A length of the parasitic element in the second direction is shorter than ½ of a wavelength of an operation frequency that is used to transmit and receive the radio signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: YU TANAKA, MITSUHIDE MUROFUSHI, KENICHI FUJII, HIROKI KATO
  • Publication number: 20250074739
    Abstract: A conveyance unit conveys the sheet to an accumulation portion. A half-folding processing unit includes a folding roller pair and performs a half-folding process on the sheet bundle. A conveyance roller pair conveys the sheet bundle. A square back processing unit performs a square back process on the sheet bundle and includes a pair of clamp portions. A length of a conveyance path from the folding roller pair to the pair of clamp portions is larger than a half of a length of a long side of a sheet of a maximum size. In a state in which conveyance by the conveyance roller pair of a first sheet bundle to be subjected to the square back process is stopped, the conveyance unit conveys at least one sheet included in a second sheet bundle subsequent to the first sheet bundle toward the accumulation portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Akito Yoda, Shinnosuke Enomoto, Shoubu Kato, Hiroki Komada, Taiki Akiyama
  • Publication number: 20250074738
    Abstract: A square back processing unit performs a square back process on the sheet bundle and includes a pair of clamp portions. The sheet bundle subjected to the square back process by the square back processing unit is discharged to a sheet bundle discharge unit. A cover unit is provided downstream of the square back processing unit in the conveyance direction such that a child access probe according to a safety standard IEC 62368-1 does not reach the pair of clamp portions in a case where the child access probe is inserted from an outside of the sheet processing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Shoubu Kato, Shinnosuke Enomoto, Hiroki Komada, Akito Yoda, Taiki Akiyama
  • Patent number: 12234623
    Abstract: A tilt structure to be provided allows the tilt of a console to be changed through simple motion and has a simple configuration. A control member 30 is coupled to a second frame 25 at a first coupling position P1 and is coupled to a first frame 20 at a second coupling position P2 provided below the first coupling position P1. Controlling the control member 30 makes the height of the first coupling position P1 adjustable. The tilt of the second frame 25 is changed in response to the height of the first coupling position P1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: STARTING INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Kato, Ami Ishimizu
  • Publication number: 20250044008
    Abstract: A rotary freezing device for freezing granules according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a circulation passage; a blowing means for circulating cold air through the circulation passage; a cooler disposed in the circulation passage and configured to cool the cold air; and a cooling drum disposed in the circulation passage and configured to freeze granules by the cold air flowing into an interior of the cooling drum while conveying the granules from an inlet to an outlet
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Jun MIURA, Masashi KATO, Masaaki HANAZAKI, Hiroki ITO, Toshikazu SUGIYAMA
  • Patent number: 12218553
    Abstract: A stator for an electric motor includes: (a) a tubular stator core having slots provided through the stator core in a direction of a rotation axis of the stator core; (b) coils inserted through the slots; (c) a conductive member electrically connected to the coils; (d) a temperature sensor attached to the conductive member; and (e) a resin portion provided to cover at least a part of the conductive member and at least a part of the temperature sensor. The conductive member is provided with a hole that extends in the direction of the rotation axis of the stator core. The temperature sensor is inserted, at least its portion, in the hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenta Tabuchi, Hiroki Kato
  • 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
  • Patent number: 12209321
    Abstract: To provide a method and an apparatus for producing a sodium hypochlorite solution on-site at a high efficiency and at the initial cost and suppressing operating cost without any problems about impurities derived from raw material water and raw salt. A method of producing a sodium hypochlorite solution on-site in the vicinity of a physical plant where a sodium hypochlorite solution is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: DE NORA PERMELEC LTD
    Inventors: Hiroki Domon, Masahiro Ohara, Masaaki Kato
  • 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
  • Patent number: 12203645
    Abstract: A light-emitting apparatus includes: a body having an inner space and an opening, the body incorporating at least one semiconductor laser element the body being made of a metal; and a sealing glass member joined to the body, to hermetically seal the inner space. The sealing glass member has a surface adjacent to the body, the surface of the sealing glass member being provided with a base joint layer in a joint region where the sealing glass member and the body are joined together, the base joint layer being made of a metal having a thermal expansion coefficient that falls between a thermal expansion coefficient of the sealing glass member and a thermal expansion coefficient of the metal constituting the body. The sealing glass member is joined to the body with the base joint layer and a solder-containing joint layer interposed between the sealing glass member and the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Sharp Fukuyama Laser Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Kato, Hiroyoshi Higashisaka, Hiroki Orita
  • Publication number: 20240425440
    Abstract: A method for producing an acid generator including reacting a carboxylic acid represented by Formula (d0-1) having a pKa of 0.50 or more with at least one of a nitrogen-containing base compound and an onium compound to obtain an intermediate represented by Formula (d0-p), and subjecting the intermediate (d0-p) to an ion exchange reaction with a compound represented by Formula (c0) to obtain a compound represented by Formula (d0). In the formulae, X0 represents a bromine atom or an iodine atom, Rm represents a hydroxy group, nb1 represents an integer in a range of 1 to 5, 1?nb1+nb2?5 is satisfied, Yd represents a divalent linking group or a single bond, Mpm?+ represents an organic ammonium cation having a logPOW of 4.8 or less or an onium cation having a logPOW of 4.8 or less, X? represents a counter anion, and Mm+ represents an onium cation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventors: Rin Odashima, Hiroki Kato
  • Publication number: 20240411226
    Abstract: A resist composition which generates an acid upon exposure to light and whose solubility in a developing solution is changed under action of an acid, the resist composition containing a resin component whose solubility in a developing solution is changed under action of an acid, in which the resin component has a constitutional unit derived from a compound represented by General Formula (a0) in which W represents a polymerizable group, Ar represents an aromatic hydrocarbon group, —OH represents a hydroxy group, La0 represents a divalent linking group, Ya0 represents a single bond or a divalent linking group, Ra01 and Ra02 each independently represents a hydrogen atom, a fluorine atom, or a fluorinated alkyl group, n0 represents an integer in a range of 1 to 4, m represents an integer of 1 or more, and Mm+ represents an m-valent organic cation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Hiroki Kato, Shuichi Ishii, Tetsuo Fujinami
  • Publication number: 20240402604
    Abstract: A resist composition containing a resin component (A1) and a photodecomposable base (D0) represented by General Formula (d0) that generates a carboxylic acid having a pKa of 0.50 or more as a generated acid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Rin Odashima, Hiroki Kato
  • Patent number: D1062535
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Kato, Robert Seiji Mochizuki, Shin Miyata
  • Patent number: D1063134
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Kato, Takuya Ishibashi, Takahiro Kanno