Patents by Inventor Hiroki Sato

Hiroki 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).

  • Publication number: 20250149309
    Abstract: A plasma processing apparatus disclosed herein includes a chamber, a substrate support, a plasma generator, at least one electromagnet, and a power source. The substrate support is provided in the chamber. The substrate support includes a first region on which a substrate is placeable and a second region which surrounds the first region and on which an edge ring is placed. The plasma generator is configured to generate a plasma in the chamber. The at least one electromagnet is configured to generate a magnetic field localized in an annular space above the edge ring. The power source is electrically connected to the at least one electromagnet and is configured to adjust a strength of the magnetic field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2025
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Hiroki SATO, Yuki KAWADA, Akihiro YOKOTA
  • Patent number: 12295202
    Abstract: Provided are a foldable optical film with excellent impact resistance and with capability to improve design quality, and an image display device including the same. An aspect of the present invention provides a foldable optical film 10 with a front surface 10A and a back surface 10B opposite to the front surface 10A, wherein optical film 10 includes a hard coat layer 12, a resin layer 13, and a decorative layer 14; the hard coat layer 12 is located closer to the front surface 10A than the resin layer 13 and the decorative layer 14 in the optical film 10; and the resin layer 13 has a film thickness of 10 ?m or more, and the resin layer 13 has a Martens hardness of 1 MPa or more and 100 MPa or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Ogawa, Keisuke Ebisu, Yousuke Kousaka, Jun Sato, Takahito Kawakami, Atsuhiro Kobayashi, Hiroki Matsushita
  • Patent number: 12289826
    Abstract: A multilayer resin substrate includes insulating resin base material layers, and conductor patterns on at least one of the insulating resin base material layers. The conductor patterns include a ground conductor on a main surface of the insulating resin base material layers and extend into a frame shape or a planar shape, and the ground conductor includes openings. An aperture ratio of the openings in an outer peripheral portion of the ground conductor is less than an aperture ratio of the openings in an inner peripheral portion of the ground conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takako Sato, Hiroki Maegawa
  • Publication number: 20250132508
    Abstract: A terminal-equipped electric wire is formed by joining a terminal and a core wire exposed from an insulation sheath of an electric wire by method of ultrasonic joining, and the terminal includes a joining portion having a square shape or a round shape in plan view, to which a distal end portion of the core wire is joined. When the joining portion has a square shape, a longitudinal direction of the electric wire is orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2024
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoaki HAYAKAWA, Hiroki Kitagawa, Shotaro Shibata, Motohide Sato, Kengo Aoshima, Narumi Suzuki, Takashi Ishihara
  • Publication number: 20250128549
    Abstract: A tire management device (10) includes: an information acquisition section (131) that acquires mounted position information indicating a mounted position of a tire on a vehicle (20) and mounted tire information that is information on the state of the tire including internal pressure; a determination section (132) that determines an abnormal internal pressure of the tire based on the mounted tire information; and a notification section (133) that outputs the mounted position and an abnormal internal pressure determination result of the tire that has been determined to have an abnormal internal pressure to a notification destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuzo YANAGIDA, Daisuke SATO, Hiroki YASUDA, Takanori KARUBE, Shunsuke SENTOKU, Tomoaki MIYOSHI, Eri HARADA
  • Publication number: 20250128378
    Abstract: A display device includes: a cutting point information acquisition unit acquiring cutting point information indicating a position of a cutting point at which a tool attached to a machine tool cuts a workpiece, the cutting point corresponding to each of a plurality of tip points included in a tool trajectory that is information indicating a movement path of the tip point of the tool; a feature acquisition unit acquiring a feature indicating a characteristic of machining, the feature being calculated corresponding to each of the tip points based on operational information that is information indicating an operational status of the machine tool, the tool trajectory, and the cutting point information; and a display unit displaying each of a plurality of the cutting points using an expression method indicating the feature corresponding to the cutting point based on the cutting point information and the feature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki KANEKO, Go SATO
  • Publication number: 20250127480
    Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to an embodiment includes a processing circuitry. The processing circuitry reduces the clutter component, which results from the tissues, from a data row of the plurality of frames and estimates first-type blood flow information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2024
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicants: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION, Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeshi SATO, Hiroki TAKAHASHI, Shoya SASAKI, Naoya IIZUKA
  • Patent number: 12282061
    Abstract: The wafer test system includes: a prober including a chuck that holds a semiconductor wafer and a probe card having probe needles thereon, and brings the probe needles in contact with semiconductor chips formed on the semiconductor wafer to inspect the semiconductor chips; an overhead hoist transport that delivers the cassette that houses the plurality of semiconductor wafers to be inspected to the prober and withdraws, from the prober, the cassette that houses the semiconductor wafers that have been inspected; a conveying control unit that controls the overhead hoist transport to convey the probe card between a replacement position of the probe card predetermined in the prober and a storage of the probe card located in a place different from the prober; and a card conveying mechanism that conveys the probe card between a holding position in the prober and the replacement position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: TOKYO SEIMITSU CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Yamaguchi, Yuta Sato, Naoki Kasai, Naoyuki Yamazoe, Tetsuya Yasunaka, Kazuma Takii, Teppei Aoki, Wataru Kawasaki, Hiroki Ishida, Yasuhito Iguchi
  • Patent number: 12275398
    Abstract: A surrounding environment recognition device recognizes a surrounding environment around a vehicle. A traveling control unit centrally controls a whole of the entire vehicle. An obstacle presumer presumes presence of an obstacle ahead of the vehicle based on a behavior distribution of preceding vehicles recognized by the surrounding environment recognition device, and estimates a position and an area where the obstacle is present when the presence of the obstacle is presumed. A traveling path calculator calculates candidates for traveling path areas along which the vehicle is expected to travel while avoiding collision with the presumed obstacle. A traveling path selector selects a traveling path area from among the calculated traveling path areas and sets the selected traveling path area. The traveling control unit controls the vehicle to travel along the set traveling path area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kuramochi, Shota Yasuda, Shigeki Mukai, Kazuyuki Takahashi, Wataru Munemura, Seiya Sato, Hiroki Maniwa
  • Patent number: 12276841
    Abstract: An optical fiber fusion splicing method for performing fusion splicing through positioning of optical fibers to be spliced in a V-groove is provided. The optical fiber fusion splicing method includes pressing the optical fibers placed in the V-groove relatively toward the V-groove using a clamp, varying a clamp pressure of the clamp pressing the optical fibers, and moving the optical fibers placed in the V-groove with respect to the V-groove in an axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC OPTIFRONTIER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Akiyama, Makoto Miyamori, Kazuyoshi Ooki, Ryosuke Meo, Ryuichiro Sato, Hiroshi Takayanagi
  • Patent number: 12269469
    Abstract: A vehicle drive assist apparatus to be applied to a vehicle executes at least emergency braking control for avoiding collision of the vehicle with a recognized object. The vehicle drive assist apparatus includes a surrounding environment recognition device and a traveling control unit. The surrounding environment recognition device includes a recognizer that recognizes a surrounding environment around the vehicle, and a feature information acquirer that acquires feature information of a target object in the recognized surrounding environment. The traveling control unit centrally controls the entire vehicle. The traveling control unit includes a determiner that determines, based on the acquired feature information, whether the target object has a possibility of hindering traveling of the vehicle. The traveling control unit continues normal traveling control for the vehicle when the target object is determined to have no possibility of hindering the traveling of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiya Sato, Shota Yasuda, Shigeki Mukai, Kazuyuki Takahashi, Wataru Munemura, Hiroaki Kuramochi, Hiroki Maniwa
  • Publication number: 20250110016
    Abstract: An inspection method of an optical fiber ribbon where a plurality of optical fibers are intermittently connected in a longitudinal direction through a connecting resin in a state where the optical fibers are arranged in parallel, the inspection method includes a step of irradiating a surface of the optical fiber ribbon where the connecting resin is provided with light from a light source while causing the optical fiber ribbon to travel in the longitudinal direction, and causing an imaging device to acquire an image based on reflected light that is emitted from the light source and reflected from the surface; and a step of detecting a position of the connecting resin based on the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventors: Hiroki ISHIKAWA, Fumiaki SATO, Kenta TSUCHIYA, Tatsuya KUROKI, Yoshiki SONOYAMA, Reo AMANO, Kenji KAWAI, Kounan SHIN, Satoshi YOSHIKAWA, Itaru SAKABE
  • Publication number: 20250110017
    Abstract: An inspection method of an optical fiber ribbon where a plurality of colored optical fibers are intermittently connected in a longitudinal direction through a connecting resin in a state where the optical fibers are arranged in parallel, the inspection method includes a step of irradiating a surface of the optical fiber ribbon with light from a light source while causing the optical fiber ribbon to travel in the longitudinal direction, and causing an imaging device to acquire a two-dimensional color image based on scattered light that is emitted from the light source and scattered from the surface of the optical fiber ribbon; and a step of specifying colors and positions of the optical fibers based on the color image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventors: Hiroki ISHIKAWA, Tatsuya KUROKI, Yoshiki SONOYAMA, Fumiaki SATO, Kenta TSUCHIYA, Reo AMANO, Kenji KAWAI, Kounan SHIN, Satoshi YOSHIKAWA, Itaru SAKABE
  • Patent number: 12263265
    Abstract: A handrail disinfection system for vehicle with handrail is mounted on a vehicle having handrail for grasping by an occupant. The handrail disinfection system includes a tank to store disinfectant solution, an exudation part provided on the handrail, an actuator for exuding the disinfectant solution stored in the tank from the exudation part, and a controller for controlling the actuator. At least one processor included in the controller executes upon execution of at least one program, performing a disinfecting process in which the actuator is controlled to exude the disinfectant solution from the exudation part to a surface of the handrail when a predetermined execution condition is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Izu, Daisuke Sato, Daisuke Ishii, Hiroki Morita, Kei Sato, Masaki Nanahara, Kazumi Serizawa, Hironobu Tanaka, Shunsuke Mogi, Takashi Hayashi, Akihiro Kusumoto
  • Publication number: 20250106548
    Abstract: Electronic apparatus includes a housing, a first sound-emitting component provided at a first side in a left-right direction of the housing and having multiple sound-emitting elements whose main sound-emitting directions differ from each other, and a second sound-emitting component provided at a second side in the left-right direction of the housing and having multiple sound-emitting elements whose main sound-emitting directions differ from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Hiroki AKAI, So SATO
  • Publication number: 20250106551
    Abstract: An electronic keyboard instrument includes a housing, a keyboard provided in connection with the housing and aligned in a left-right direction of the housing, a sound-emitting component provided inside the housing, and a reflector comprising a reflection surface configured to reflect sound from the sound-emitting component and provided at an upper portion of the housing inside the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: So SATO, Hiroki AKAI
  • Patent number: 12258534
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a viscosity-index improving agent having an excellent friction reduction effect to reduce friction of a lubricating oil composition when the viscosity-index improving agent is added thereto. The present also aims to provide a lubricating oil composition containing the viscosity-index improving agent. The present invention relates to, for example, a viscosity-index improving agent containing: (co)polymer (A) containing, as an essential constituent monomer, a polyolefin-based monomer (a) represented by the following formula (1); an ester oil (B1) having a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. of 1.00 to 2.50 mm2/s; and an ester oil (B2) having a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. of 2.51 to 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: SANYO CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Naito, Satoshi Matsumoto, Masahiro Hashimoto, Kenyuu Yoshida, Hiroki Yamashita, Ryota Sato
  • Publication number: 20250093805
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a conveyance unit configured to convey a sheet, a measurement unit for measuring a feature amount of the sheet conveyed by the conveyance unit, a sheet detection sensor for detecting the sheet conveyed by the conveyance unit, a pressing member movable between a first position separated from the measurement unit and a second position closer to the measurement unit than the first position, a moving unit configured to move the pressing member, an image forming unit configured to form, based on a predetermined image forming condition, an image on the sheet conveyed by the conveyance unit, and a controller, the controller is configured to stop conveyance of the sheet by the conveyance unit in a case where the sheet is detected by the sheet detection sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: KATSUHIDE KOGA, KAZUSA MORIMOTO, NORIO NEGISHI, HIROKI SATO, TAKAHIRO OONUMA
  • Publication number: 20250093803
    Abstract: A sheet detection device includes a measurement unit for measuring a feature amount of a sheet conveyed by a conveyance unit, a pressing member movable between a first position separated from the measurement unit and a second position closer to the measurement unit than the first position, and a moving unit configured to move the pressing member, wherein the pressing member is arranged by the moving unit at the first position in a case where the measurement unit detects that the sheet has not been conveyed to a measurement position of the measurement unit, wherein the moving unit is configured to move the pressing member from the first position to the second position in a case where the measurement unit detects that the sheet has been conveyed to the measurement position of the measurement unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: TAKAHIRO OONUMA, KATSUHIDE KOGA, HIROKI SATO, NORIO NEGISHI, KAZUSA MORIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20250093802
    Abstract: A sheet detection device includes a measurement unit configured to measure a sheet, and a power supply voltage controller configured to control supply of a power supply voltage to the measurement unit, wherein the power supply voltage controller is configured to start supplying the power supply voltage to the measurement unit when receiving a notification indicating that a mode for performing sheet measurement is set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: HIROKI SATO, KAZUSA MORIMOTO, NORIO NEGISHI, TAKAHIRO OONUMA, KATSUHIDE KOGA